saulnier
\so.nje\
The verdict
“saulnier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,037
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Mot ancien, qui n’est plus utilisé avec cette orthographe) Ouvrier qui produit du sel sur les marais salants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saulnier · saulnier · French
saulnier · rank #42,037 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,037
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sarin
Nearest frequency peer: sarin (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « saulnier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sapeur
sapeur
57,967 corpus weight
- sarde
sarde
57,966 corpus weight
- sarin
sarin
57,965 corpus weight
- saulnier
saulnier
57,964 corpus weight
- says
says
57,963 corpus weight
- schools
schools
57,962 corpus weight
What this shows « saulnier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saulnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saulnier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around saulnier (IPA \so.nje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,037 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Mot ancien, qui n’est plus utilisé avec cette orthographe) Ouvrier qui produit du sel sur les marais salants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for saulnier, with forms such as "asulnier", "salunier", and "sauliner". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "soulier", "saunier", "sablier", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is saulnier, spelled S-A-U-L-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1(Mot ancien, qui n’est plus utilisé avec cette orthographe) Ouvrier qui produit du sel sur les marais salants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saulnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Est-il, par exemple, rien de plus étrange que cette longue et sanglante protestation des faux saulniers… […] Le faux saulnier échappe aux potences royales, et, un reste de corde au cou, arbore la cocarde blanche.
Ensuite venaient les comptes des saulniers, les journées des hommes pour ramasser le sel des marais ; et puis, chaque automne, un grand nombre de journées supplémentaires pour les vendanges, et une somme ronde pour le repas de fête des vendangeurs…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asulnier
- salunier
- sauliner
- saullnier
- saulneir
- saulnierr
- saulnire
- saulnnier
- saunlier
- ssaulnier
- sualnier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saulnier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).